Supreme Court of Florida

A habitual offender sentence on a life felony may be corrected as illegal through a motion filed under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a) where the habitual offender statute in existence at the time of defendant's crime did not apply to life felonies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/24/2001
• Published 05/24/2001

Judges

• PARIENTE, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Wade Carter, Bushnell, FL, Petitioner, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Roberta J. Tylke, and Kellie A. Nielan, Assistant Attorneys General, Daytona Beach, FL, for Respondent.